Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	10	21	14
Rank change year-on-year	+11	-7	0
Contract jobs citing Azure	179	74	52
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire	15.43%	10.82%	11.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category	42.22%	31.36%	36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted	130	57	39
10^th Percentile	£399	£315	£481
25^th Percentile	£438	£400	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£505	£475	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+6.32%	-13.64%	-7.02%
75^th Percentile	£588	£588	£638
90^th Percentile	£675	£693	£660
Yorkshire median daily rate	£500	£500	£513
% change year-on-year	-	-2.44%	-6.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	424	236	144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire	36.55%	34.50%	30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	289	173	94
10^th Percentile	£364	£303	£400
25^th Percentile	£447	£384	£468
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£514	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+2.80%	-4.76%	-11.47%
75^th Percentile	£600	£538	£600
90^th Percentile	£688	£648	£650
Yorkshire median daily rate	£500	£490	£500
% change year-on-year	+2.04%	-2.00%	-4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£20.50
Median hourly rate	£16.00	-	£21.00
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	+7.69%
75^th Percentile	-	-	£21.50
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Yorkshire median hourly rate	£19.00	£113.75	£21.00
% change year-on-year	-83.30%	+441.67%	-6.71%

Azure Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Azure Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Sheffield	+10	174	£513	+7.89%	75
Doncaster	-6	1	-	-	4
Azure Yorkshire

Azure Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Azure also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region with a requirement for Azure.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	52.5%	94
2	DevOps	52.0%	93
3	CI/CD	49.7%	89
4	GCP	45.8%	82
5	Cybersecurity	35.8%	64
6	Python	35.2%	63
7	Kubernetes	33.0%	59
8	Microsoft	32.4%	58
9	Terraform	31.3%	56
10	Infrastructure as Code	29.6%	53
11	Agile	25.1%	45
12	Stakeholder Management	24.0%	43
13	Observability	23.5%	42
14	Java	22.3%	40
15	Platform Engineering	20.1%	36
16	Continuous Improvement	19.6%	35
16	GitHub	19.6%	35
18	AI	19.0%	34
18	SQL	19.0%	34
20	Azure DevOps	18.4%	33
20	Jenkins	18.4%	33
20	JIRA	18.4%	33
20	Problem-Solving	18.4%	33
24	Microservices	17.3%	31
24	Software Engineering	17.3%	31
26	Active Directory	16.8%	30
27	Analytics	16.2%	29
27	Docker	16.2%	29
27	PowerShell	16.2%	29
30	Test Automation	15.6%	28

Azure Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	52.5%	94
2	GCP	45.8%	82
3	GitHub	19.6%	35
4	Azure DevOps	18.4%	33
5	Entra ID	15.1%	27
6	Microsoft 365	11.7%	21
7	GitHub Actions	7.3%	13
8	Power Platform	6.7%	12
9	Google Kubernetes Engine	6.1%	11
10	Azure Monitor	5.6%	10
11	Serverless	5.0%	9
12	Microsoft Copilot	3.9%	7
13	Azure Data Factory	3.4%	6
13	Kong	3.4%	6
15	OpenShift	2.8%	5
16	AWS CloudFormation	2.2%	4
16	Azure Databricks	2.2%	4
16	Azure Storage	2.2%	4
16	Cloud Run	2.2%	4
16	GitHub Copilot	2.2%	4